- April 28, 2024
-
-
Loading
Loading
A Bronze Star, the nation’s fifth highest combat decoration, was awarded last month to Maj. Eric L. Geyer, with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1, in Yuma, Ariz.
Geyer graduated from Flagler Palm Coast High School and was a member of the 1995 state champion wrestling team coached by Steve DeAugustino.
“Doesn’t surprise me,” DeAugustino said on Aug. 5. “He was always a first-class kind of guy.”
From November of 2008 through June 2009, Geyer was deployed to Afghanistan. On Jan. 3, 2009, he infiltrated minefields and established “an observation post within 100 meters of the enemy’s forward lines,” according to a press release sent by Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System.
Geyer said of his award: “I challenge leaders — at all levels — to focus less on what means and methods we need to implement to punish Marines when they do something wrong. Instead, we need to focus on awarding the Marines who are doing things right. If we do this, everything else will fall into place.”
